Big gay chronologically ill disabled chrysalid. I write about games and media because the work I used to do now means getting plagued DMs okay but I might not notice them right away. If you're gonna flirt don't be fuckin coy about it, that wastes precious gayin' time power words: she/her
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Last Notes npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega it was invariably stuff like "you can save lots of money by buying cheaper brands, or even supermarket versions!!!" "don't buy four times as much as you need and then throw most of it away!!" "try cooking in batches!" and at the end was always the big reveal of WOOOOW look how much you saved per month, and the "savings" were double what I have ever spent in my life, because they were having twelve takeaways a month and falling for shit like £6.40 for 200g of premium individually bagged moravian oats npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega there was this BBC programme in I think the 2000s or early 2010s, about "how to save money on food/shopping" and I fucking loathed it so intensely. And that was before another decade of fascism - sorry, "austerity" - made everything even worse It featured a "real" couple every episode, and would take them through the ways they could save money. And every episode I saw, these couples were the most bougie money pissing arseholes you've ever seen. So all the advice was this smug, patronising shit that everyone who was poor even briefly already knows, and even a lot of people WITH money are smart enough to know too. npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega Fantastic timing as always, but my rentworm has had its fill of my blood and is moving on to devouring whole prey* if anyone is looking to move to/within east london over this summer, I would very much prefer to have more influence over where I move to than chancing it with randos *(landlord is selling the place) npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega also like, making a huge thing of charcoal by putting wood in a pit and lighting it and sealing it and coming back four or five days later and hooooly shit that's so much charcoal npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega there is a charm to pouring out molten copper into the little clay moulds you've made for the first time, several dozen hours into the game npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega just as films convinced old people that they could simply beat up all the "bad guys" if they got angry enough, games have convinced young people that after a major disaster they could just walk around picking random shit up and a few days later their totally unsupervised crops from their 5 Wheat Seeds would make them self-sufficient npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega oh I was agreeing with you. any time they ask, the answer is "get bent" or just "of course officer! My name is Yvette Cooper" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega give them NOTHING npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega I wish mastodon had survived, so that I could reply to this 😞 npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega i got up at 7 wtf npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega To-day I did again blunder, disturbing restful neighbourcatte, upon whose dismay I did rest cured meat in hope of forgiveness. Disdainful was proud neighbourcatte of said meat, though it be a rare purchase indeed and shared gladly. In spirit was my gesture understood, and met with entreaties for further, unknown meats, whose supply is of course lacking. I did abandon my intent to bask in sunlight, gaining nothing. Vexatious creature! npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega (Several rounds of one-way spud-punching later) Lib: "I disapprpve of these spud punches! Please, cheer for me more, which will shame him into stopping." Fash: (hits Lib with a hammer) Lib: "That's definitely improper! Referee! Referee!" (cut to shot of referee lying dead backstage) Fash: (hammers lib) Lib: "Well I believe that is a violation, good sir, of-" Fash: (stabs Lib) Lib: "Refereeee!" Referee: (clearly Fash wearing a referee costume) "Minus 50 points for Lib for stabbing Fash" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega Referee: "Alright let's see a good clean fight" Liberal: "Yes sir" Fascist: (punches Liberal in the spuds) Liberal: "Hey! He can't do that!" Ref: "Actually there's no rule, everyone just tacitly agreed not to" Lib: "Well I shall honour that noble history!!" Fash: (spud punch) Lib: "Sir, assembled crowd, did you know that spud punching is not a legitimate means of-" Fash: (spud punch) Ref: "Look I can't stop him but you could punch back, or at least guard your spuds" Lib: "NEVER!" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega "The fatal errors of life are not due to man’s being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one’s finest moment. They are due to man’s being logical. There is a wide difference. " npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega "Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations. Only what is fine, and finely conceived, can feed Love. But anything will feed Hate. " npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega "But you, like myself, have had a terrible tragedy in your life, though one of an entirely opposite character to mine. Do you want to learn what it was? It was this. In you Hate was always stronger than Love. There was no struggle between them at all, or but little; of such dimensions was your Hatred and of such monstrous growth. You did not realise that there is no room for both passions in the same soul. They cannot live together in that fair carven house. npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega reading him tell himself that "you loved me" and murmuring aloud "no he didn't, girl" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega "The gods are strange. It is not of our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. But for my pity and affection for you and yours, I would not now be weeping in this terrible place. npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega uh oh I opened the full version of de profundis again. help. help npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega wow that's the wankiest thing I've said in a while. Anyway I'm glad you're taking care of yourself x npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega that good stuff can come from surprising places! Grapple them unto thy soul, etc npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega yeah. I am still struggling with trusting anyone. which makes building the support you need impossible. But when the last several calls came from inside the house, I dunno how else to be npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega I am slowly being taught that the ones who post big are often frauds, and the ones who come through are mostly quiet people you barely know :| sorry you've been let down npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega okay, put it this way: if people had told you, upfront, that in order to use this chat thing you'd never touched before, you had to send them a copy of your passport and let them fucking scan your face and use their spyware to try to guess your age you fucking wouldn't have. No you wouldn't. You've just chosen to refuse to look at what they've fucking done to you npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega special thanks to everyone who opposed ID cards, but is fine with random online businesses from all over the world, and any corporation that buys them out in future, and every "third party vendor" they contract, and their 768 "partners", and every government organisation who asks, and god knows how many randos working for all of the above, all having copies of their ID that they special promise not to keep probably npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega the x-stein files. every week, mulder insists there's a new monster, scully scoffs, they investigate, find the facts, scully shoots another rich guy in the face, the world gets a little better npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega everything takes so goddamn long and so much WORK now. Even when you're TRYING TO SPEND MONEY, something you hate doing because you really really can't afford it and agarghrgh npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega alright, fuck this, I'm just going to shoplift from them instead. They clearly don't want my money so npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega reminded me of the chryssalids: "I told you it was a bad thing to let her marry that fellow. There’s a type of woman who isn’t content until she’s made herself some man’s slave and doormat — put herself completely in his power. That’s the kind she was.’" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega it was striking to gradually move away from there, and then leave completely... and then interact over the next few years with people still there (or on the blue reskin, whatever). Even in non-public spaces, the way they'd immediately leap on during a friendly conversation to try to be more righteous or have a better Take or pick some pedantic fuckin nano-hole in *conversation with their own people* npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega I'd say this was the cruellest disconnection, but it would be a lie with such a great smile showing https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/882/796/344/834/475/original/c03949387a80d38f.png npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega "this browser extension forces search engines to only show results from before 2023!" a better idea: don't use any search engine that doesn't obey OPERATORS this is fuckin ancient technology guys. Any search engine without it is dogshit and intentionally treating you with contempt. Even google used to do it before it fully ate itself npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega people really want to believe hitler was some special evil genius, and not a completely unremarkable arsehole whose chrysalis form has always existed in most people's lives, waiting for the right conditions npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega "watch as I cleverly undermine the dictator who wants to be the centre of everyone's attention by breathlessly repeating his every gibberish word" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega As someone with zero training or education in journalism, the last twelve years or so of watching financially comfortable, incompetent hacks repeat the same basic mistakes over and over have been extremely frustrating npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega they know it's bullshit but they still believe it. It's not about belief. It's about performance. Even internally that concept alone makes the book possibly the most important story of the last century npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega people reference that book so goddamn often but almost never seem to get what was actually most important and frightening about it the active destruction of language so that "even if there is rebellious spirit, there will be no words with which to communicate it". Doublethink, most of all. The act of fervently believing false things, knowing full well they are false, and simultaneously denying that you know you're doing it. Even saying the term requires deploying it npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega I think often of that bit in 1984 where the guy speaking to a crowd swaps the target of the Hate mid-sentence, and they all immediately reverse position and declare that the decorations they just put up themselves were put up by enemy saboteurs and angrily tear them down Very glad I read that one so young. Gladder still I wasn't forced to in school npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega My guess for why this one persists: it's fun to faff around with a wobbly stick. It's very simple "magic" with no skill or work needed (fake work in scamming people still takes effort, typically). And there's not yet a non-bullshit way to do what it pretends to, so magical gibberish sneaks back in I don't think it's going anywhere, unfortunately npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega Inadvertantly exposed to an american comedy film from the 1980s, before they had researched funny npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/777/863/772/134/980/original/a06c3f7c6efac78a.jpg npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega it's technology! cloth and sewing and embroiding and knitting, they're all some of the most important and powerful technologies we ever found! npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega they're a great publisher, which is to say they love to step in when your game has already found its audience and take the credit. Also you get a free mandatory forum full of nazi fuckwits that you can't ban npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega but The Algorithm!!!! (all bow) npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega You're absolutely right, Jonathan! Global Thermonuclear War is a popular game with thousands of ways to win. You're really onto something amazing here and I think the doubters just aren't able to understand the paradigm shift you're bringing the world with these insights npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega old world: "if you talk the computer into contradicting itself it will say 'logic error logic error' and shut down" new world: "the computer is entirely non-sentient and understands nothing so it will constantly contradict itself but we're putting it in charge of the nukes anyway" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega capitalism is so efficient it can now manufacture a dozen unnecessary economic collapses per lifetime npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega It is 1995. Game publishers are crooks and fucking morons It is 2005. Game publishers are crooks and fucking morons It is 2015. Game publishers are mostly crooks and fucking morons It is 2025. Game publishers are crooks and fucking morons npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega reading the interview with the Oglaf creators and I just love how much they LIKE each other https://www.tcj.com/talking-oglaf-with-trudy-cooper-and-doug-bayne-wed-stay-up-all-night-drawing-stuff-to-make-each-other-laugh/ npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega mortal engines was one of the series that was in part enabled by the success of perry twatter that was vastly, vastly more critical of its own awful world npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega I am glad that this has resonated with you all, now pls be aware that u r also gay and have a autoimmune disorder thank u npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega the great poet: "the love that dare not speak its name" me, nodding sorrowfully: "ham" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega moderately tempted to do an educational bit for computer touchers, using shops or public services as a metaphor. But that would require them to have lived like that npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega autism: "special interest you know millions of things about!" adhd: "thaT! And that! and I like THAT now! And that! Now that!" audhd: "my special interest is knowing just enough about many things to get into a very embarrassing conversation if anyone starts asking questions" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega default github text: "this is a useful tool for feeling superior through obfuscation" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega 2025 and whenever I am directed to github, it is still an impenetrable fucking mess to anyone who simply wants to download the thing they were linked to npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega stumbled across some old notes I don't remember making you see I forget more truths than u can ever learn https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/265/444/474/272/147/original/c55363e0f182bd8e.png npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega hobbits, meanwhile, well. We all know that bilbo's first move wasn't to put the ring on his finger npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega elfs are probably too busy looking pretty and being white supremacists to be actually hot or good in bed. But then maybe it's like those people who look really proper and everyone assumes are prudish, and they're actually fuckin filth npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega I can see arguments for dwarfses being gangbang city but also for them being asexual, finstance npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega this was a split second joke but now that I've let it in, I suspect it could expose violent disagreements npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega who is fuckin more npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega you don't have to fuck someone else to get divorced and in fact it's a LOT simpler not to npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega if the investors don't want to be kicked in the throat every time they go outside, they can simply opt out by individually telling everyone they ever meet not to npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega it's always hard not to bitter laugh when someone, meaning well, asks if I told the police. Thank you for trying, for what you guessed at when you saw how much harm was done. But the worst criminals don't break the law npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega teach teenagers real computer skills, so that instead of falling into a life of crime, they actively pursue fewer, bigger crimes targeted at the powerful npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega buzz bzzz motherfucker :D https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/677/564/719/903/044/original/224fbd4e9369e414.mp4 npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega Not enough of us are taught about our radical history, because capitalist propaganda has poisoned almost everything. Neoliberalism is incapable of anything as metal as Great Enoch, so of course it spread the lie that the luddites were backwards hicks who hated technology npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega It's time to repeat that the Luddites had a signature weapon they named Great Enoch It was a sledgehammer made by two men who had also made parts of the machinery that the capitalist parasites (redundant) were using to further enrich themselves at everyone else's expense (further redundant). One of these men was named Enoch. Hence its name, its use in smashing the machinery, and their saying: "Enoch made them; Enoch shall break them" npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega what they should ban is those videos people make where they edit little phrases into footage for a split second so you have to keep fucking pausing to read what it says, and it's always unfunny projection shit but because it flashes up for a second if you don't go back to read it you'll be too distracted and miss the point of the video these are the real cause of everyone being depressed and the teenagers being angry at capitalism. ban them npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega banning the rap musics and the vodeo games and the social medias vs actually improving society It wouldn't even be so frustrating if they banned something that was crap now and then, instead of just whatever's new npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega All the lying opportunist arsehole politicians (but I repeat myself) trying to ban social media "for the children" are gonna look great when the kids inevitably figure out ways to circumvent that, which will make no difference to anything in the vast majority of cases, but will at some point allow an abuser to claim in court that they thought they were talking to an adult because how else would they be on social media npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega reading that the new york cops might be using chatbots to find the Underwriter fuck me this just keeps getting funnier every day I'm genuinely not sure whether it's incompetence or a clever bit of sabotage to help him get away with it npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega I literally just learned it a few seconds ago. Fuckin what. How. Why. What pillock came up with that npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega jamie oliver being a complete prick in a new way aside, this shit is so wrong. Even the thin fucking slice of money you might be able to make with writing a children's book has to be fucking taken from you by some already-rich "celebrity" arseholes who aren't satisfied with already having more than any of you will ever have https://www.themarysue.com/jamie-olivers-publishing-scandal-proves-britains-obsession-with-celebrity-penned-childrens-books-has-gone-too-far/ npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega "ho ho ho, you can't expect a pc from seven years ago to play today's games!" Why? Why not? Tell me. Apart from "it uses fancier tech". What difference does this actually make to your game? Why is some pleasant little tech frippery worth ten million perfectly functional computers going to landfull? It's like this because you made it like this. If you told people they had to spend hundreds just to play a new album they would tell you to fuck off. It's all just rich people conning us again npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega genuinely though, this is just bad. The hardware race bullshit has come back these last few years, and there really is no difference between anything the games are actually doing compared to ten years ago. We hit diminishing marginal returns on shiny graphics over a decade ago, and even greater scale has mostly been used just for extra spectacle npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega (also luddism is anticapitalism and pro-humanity and it is good and one time a rich guy threatened to kill them so they kidnapped him and shot his dick off, we need this now more than ever) npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega (I must grudgingly acknowledge that this suggests rockstar did an impressive job with making the cowboy game run well even if the loading times were atrocious) npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega The first new PC I ever bought was in early 2011. It was the first time I'd ever had enough money, and also the time when games had finally, FINALLY stepped off the hardware races for a while (largely because of gog and then steam opening distribution of older and small-scale independent games). That PC, with only a bit of extra ram once or twice, was able to run games all the way up to red dead redemption 2 in early 2021. And it only struggled with that because of a specific incompatibility npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega this isn't luddism. It's not just me being poor either. There's just no reason, other than corporate greed and the mindless culture it's nurturted for 40+ years, that a computer from a decade ago shouldn't be able to play a modern game Yes, the average corporate game will look shinier and demand more of the hardware. But it doesn't have to. Very little of that changes anything about what the game is We don't do this with any other form of art or entertainment. It's entirely bad npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega because I have a very advanced and therefore terrible brain, I woke up earlier pondering how ridiculous and fucked up and outright bad it is that it's near universally accepted that games are just something that HAVE to become more demanding and "advanced" to play over time. Despite being well into a second decade of the actual abilities of computer hardware being exactly the same npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega happy birthday to the bleakest, britishest image https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/459/759/900/093/726/original/3e363d35748d0cc6.jpg npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega yeah bitch im maskin * face warm * no makeup * dont like plage * repel weak mind dipshit * fuck tha police * corporat shit also are also poliec * spite weird men * not worry about expresion * appropriate look 4 dystopia * actually respect disabled people npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega If someone starts out their advice/opinion with "I get up at 5am" I just skip the rest. That's not advice, that's a cat who learned to type so they could fuck with as many humans as possible npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega if you make people create an account to do something, your site will soon be full of the kind of people willing to create an account. Do you really want that kind of culture npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega reading an old manual for this game won me a biology quiz. Biomass, phenotype, genome, commensalism. The detail and theoretical grounding in it was absurd npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega some games get judgey at the end of the level and think they can give you a mark, and they go "you get a D because you did not find all the secrets". To this I say, that is because they are none of my business npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/881/467/286/916/663/original/1822b7bb62182ad7.jpg npub1vjphwpmek2h2nf8hzeg4ztrt33r0kk97n4awr2pwxp9q27mnrfhsffppul Sin Vega today we celebrate not glory hunter neil armstrong or memorably named buzz aldrin, but the third guy, who stayed off the moon in order to support the others. His name was... ah, shit. Uh, I want to say... Chris?